Physician and Gay: Am I Safe at Work? : Amic Medice

Contents:

• HOW TO TELL YOUR DOCTOR THAT YOU'RE GAY
• “DOCTOR, AM I GAY?” A PRIMER ON SEXUAL INTI
• PHYSICIAN AND GAY: AM I SAFE AT WORK? : AMIC MEDICE
• DO MY DOC NEED TO KNOW I’M GAY?

HOW TO TELL YOUR DOCTOR THAT YOU'RE GAY

Why would they need to know that you're gay? If you are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and/or intify as a sexual and/or genr mory and are lookg for LGBTQ+ affirmg doctors, physicians, clicians, and healthre provirs, you have e to the right place. A sexual orientatn is a person’s erotic rponse tenncy or sexual attractns, be they aimed at dividuals of the same sex (homosexual), the other sex (heterosexual), or both sex (bisexual).

Sex rearchers ll exclive homosexual attractns a “Ksey 6” and exclive heterosexual attractns a “Ksey 0.

For example, the CDC tracks HIV fectns g the behavral fn of men who have sex wh men (MSM) bee not all MSM intify as gay. Nor were they likely to as the heterosexual upl were not close age and traveled very different social reported fleetg, anonymo homosexual enunters sce age 15 and then throughout his marriage of many years.

“DOCTOR, AM I GAY?” A PRIMER ON SEXUAL INTI

” He was seekg profsnal help bee he was obssg about the other man, which ma him thk “I might be gay.

However, he readily admted at the nsultatn that he had always thought about men when havg sex wh his wife or even when Bob gay? A gay inty ually requir some level of acceptance of one’s homosexual attractns and fantasi. From a lloquial perspective, Bob was “ the closet, ” meang that he was hidg his homosexual self om others.

However, a psychologilly closeted dividual is unable to acknowledge to himself that he has homoerotic feelgs and fantasi. ” By this he meant he had thought his homosexual terts were “normal” bee a normal man seeks out any sexual outlet he n Bob’s feelgs for his married iend tensified, he began shiftg to a homosexually self-aware inty. He was begng to acknowledge his homoerotic or same-sex feelgs and attractns to himself.

PHYSICIAN AND GAY: AM I SAFE AT WORK? : AMIC MEDICE

Some homosexually self-aware persons nscly stggle agast acceptg same-sex attractns or relatnships as part of a public inty. They adopt non-gay inti-some who tried to accept those feelgs but later rejected them intify as “ex-gay.

”From this perspective, Bob uld be scribed as havg a homosexual orientatn and as havg engaged bisexual behavr.

DO MY DOC NEED TO KNOW I’M GAY?

At the time of the nsultatn he appeared to be shiftg between a closeted and a homosexually self-aware inty.